Andrew Shim, Ben Marshall, Frank Harper

Romeo and Gavin are best friends who live pretty average 12 year-old lives -- until Morrell moves into their Midlands estate neighborhood. When the eccentric Morrell develops a romantic obsession wi...( read more  read more... )th Romeo's older sister, his friendship with the boys takes on a rather sinister edge.

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R, 1 hr. 30 min.

Directed by: Shane Meadows

Release Date: October 27, 2000

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  • September 24, 2009
    Shane Meadows is the best thing that's happened to British film in years! So is Paddy Considine who makes an amazing first performance.
  • August 14, 2009
    a most english of english films. with a couple of the cast who later went on to this is england (andrew shim & vicky mcclure) and one that went on to dead mans shoes (paddy considine) shane meadows makes another masterpiece. we all know dead mans shoes was great and this is engla...( read more)nd a masterpiece, but delving back into meadows older stuff we get some closer to the heart stories, especially for those of us who grew up in england. i remember being played with when i was a kid by one older nutty kid and i remember playing with a kid in my road when i was a few years older. dear god... that sounds so michael jackson. anyway, it's obviously not meant like that... hey, wait... i even had a crush on his older sister... only i wasn't a psycho, but yeh... i do wonder why bother having bob hoskins in it for five minutes screen time max!! becase he's english? man, i need some help in working that one out... but frank harper in it too... wasn't he in football factory? anyway, i'm really starting to become a major shane meadows fan. he's not afraid to bear his feelings on film. rather than show them off he's bringing out the skeletons you're meant to hide in the closet in a truly english fashion. foreigners will never get us! especially the yanks who we'll have to slowly explain the whole film too afterwards :-)
  • September 18, 2008
    Romeo Brass is a schoolboy whose friendships and family are turned upsode down by the arrival of a socially inadequate misfit played by Paddy Considine who insinuates himself into his life. Another gritty real life drama from Shane Meadows typically blends domestic drama, comedy...( read more) and urban violence in this in turns humorous and disturbing tale of suburban Britain. All the performances are very good and completely believable, filmed in Meadows' usual naturalistic style, and once again Paddy Considine steals the show as the unhinged Morrell who is harmless and hilarious at the outset but terrifying and creepy when he shows his true colours. My one criticism would be that the situation is resolved a little too conveniently, and as a result I was left wanting more, but a damning criticism that certainly is not. Not quite up to the standard of Dead Man's Shoes or This Is England, but a fine film nonetheless.
  • June 22, 2007
    Another excellent film from Shane Meadows and another outstanding performance for Paddy Considine. This film manages to lure you into a false sense of security and then shocks you. Again, gritty, realistic something that seems to be a pattern for Shane Meadows.
  • February 23, 2009
    Simply amazing. Funny, dark, innocent, violent, bizarre, sweet, surprising, shocking. Indescribable. A tour de force performance debut from Paddy Considine is the highlight of the film. Simply stunning.
  • January 22, 2009
    Shane Meadow's has to be one of Britian's best contemporary directors. He knows how to create a very believable story,with fascinating characters that shine on screen. This is a risky,difficult and very impressive little movie about two 12-year-old friends Shim and Marshall,who a...( read more)re befriended by peculiar loner Considine. It begins as a light heated study of adolescent friendship,and slowly turns into a shocking drama once Considine shows his dark side. Great natural performances from everyone,especially Considine,who's superb in his acting debut.
  • November 22, 2008
    Paddy Considine & Shane Meadows
    collaboration... Need I say more........

    But disappointing end :(
  • October 27, 2008
    Favourite Shane Meadows film.
  • September 22, 2008
    A surprisingly humorous film for one that has so many dark moments, this tells a tale of two young boys whose lives are effected by a weird older guy who comes into their lives.

    Paddy Considine is very convincing as the outsider trying to fit in, both amusing off-kilter and quit...( read more)e menacing in equal measures.

    Recommended.
  • August 12, 2008
    This came on TV really late at night and I thought it was going to be something crap like the kind of dramas you're made to watch in school. However, it's completely not what you expected. Morrell is a really frightening character.

    Amazing!

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